Regulation, governance and public strategy: how policy shapes what health technology and AI are allowed, and encouraged, to become.
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In Q1 2026, ten of the world's largest tech companies launched healthcare AI products within 72 days. Every launch prioritises admin support; not one claims to diagnose. The pattern reveals that the real barrier isn't technology but liability, and the trillion-dollar question is who blinks first on clinical AI.
We talk endlessly about “disrupting healthcare”, yet almost never touch the one thing that shapes everything else: how we pay for it. This piece looks at Uruguay’s mutualista model as a living prototype for turning gyms, wellness apps, employers and hospitals into one coherent “health metro”, where prevention and intervention finally run on the same line.
Remember when people strapped phones to dogs to fake their daily steps? That ingenuity was just the warm-up act. As we move toward health-conditional universal basic income systems, we're not just designing new social policies — we're accidentally creating the blueprint for tomorrow's most lucrative underground economy.
The problem: Sickcare OS
